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214 *cherigmanmis:—one whose duty it was to inspect and fix the boundaries of a manor.
 * cherisetum, chersettum:—church scot.
 * cheruca:— a vane, a weathercock.
 * cheva:—a shive, the bung in which the vent peg is inserted.
 * chevacia selionum:—the heads of the furrows.
 * chevagium:—poll money paid by villeins to their lord, "ne vocentur per capita" or on their marriage or for licence to leave his land; or to a man of power for his protection; also used for payment by the king at shrines.
 * chevalchia:—cavalry; a cavalry expedition; military service as cavalry.
 * chevantia:—a loan of money.
 * cheverillus:—a cockerel; a roe-buck.
 * cheveringus, chevero:— a rafter; a joist; a chevron.
 * chevicia:—a loan.
 * chevescia, cheviscce, chevitiat:—heads of ploughed land, headrigs.
 * chevisare:—to obtain by agreement.
 * cheviserum:—a headstall.
 * chimenea:—a chimney; a fire-place.
 * chimera:—a riding cloak; a cope.
 * chiminachium, chiminagium. See cheminagium.
 * chiminus. See cheminus.
 * chintura:—a strip of land.
 * chirographare:— to grant by indenture.
 * chirographarius:—a chirographer, writer of chirographs.
 * chirographum:—a chirograph, a public instrument of conveyance, attested by witnesses; an indenture.
 * chirographics:— an officer of the Common Pleas who engrosses fines.
 * chirotheca:—a glove, a gauntlet.
 * chivagium:—payment by nativi to their lord for liberty to leave his lordship. See chevagium.
 * choercere:—for cocrcere.
 * chorepiscopus:—a suffragan bishop.
 * chorista:—a chorister.
 * chorus:— the choir of a church; a crowth or crowd, a musical instrument of Wales and Scotland, played with a bow.
 * chrisma: —consecrated oil; any ceremony at which it is used, as extreme unction.
 * chrismale:—the cloth laid over a child's head at baptism.
 * chrismaiorium:—a chrismatory, a vessel to contain consecrated oil.
 * Christicola, Christianicola:—a Christian.
 * chrotta:—a crowd, a fiddle.
 * chursetum:—church scot.
 * chymera:— for camera.
 * ciborium:—a canopy or ceiler over the altar; a metal vessel to contain the sacramental bread.